In the the eastcentral United States, bordering West Virginia, Kentucky,
Indiana, Michigan, Lake Erie, & Pennsylvania.

NAME ORIGIN

For the Ohio River, which forms the southern boundary of the state and
also marked the southern boundary of the Northwest Territory, from which Ohio was the
first portion to achieve statehood. The name is either from Iroquoian oheo
"beautiful" or ohion-hioo "beautiful river"; or possibly Wyandot
ohezuh "great; fair to look upon."